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Saturday May 12, 2007 #
Event: Storm the Trent
Adventure Racing 4:21:00 [5] +726m
ahr:168 max:187 shoes: Brooks Cascadia Pivot
Storm The Trent 1-day "Trek" race
Woo Hoo!
Bash and I did this one as solos.
My 'Bent seems cursed. It had a flat when I took it out of the van, and after changing the tire I found it low again 10 minutes before the briefing, so yet another panic tire change.
We started on the water. Paddling my huge expedition kayak into a stiff breeze, I was going zone 5 and couldn't catch Bash, until the downwind section! I came off the water around 6th after a huge effort, with Dave Z 's team and Bash hot on my heels. A horrible 400M portage (My 80lb boat's a pig to carry solo).
On the bikes, I managed to catch Dave Z's team and a solo on the road on a huge climb, but cramped up something fierce, and had to stop, stretch and eat tums. I got them and another team of 2 later on the nice singletrack.
TA to the run, where I planned to bushwhack to cut the marked route. Unfortunately the 1st 2 CPs were misplaced, and I wasted some time looking for CP1 with some other teams. Once we found it I lost them by more bushwhacking, happened to hit the misplaced CP2 OK, then leapfrogged Dave Z, nailed the advanced section and came off the trek in 1st!
Back to bikes, Dave Z and Nulla (sp?) caught me when I took a bearing at a suspicious curve under a hydro line, (Threw my compass way off) and went squishing off through a muddy ATV trail. I eventually backtracked, ran them down, and we worked together briefly. After that I just put my head down (figuratively) and biked hard by myself the rest of the race, thinking that if the headwind's hard for me it's worse for all the Wedgie Bike riders. I kept waiting for the roadies to run me down.
At the final offroad section I ran into a team and solo, (who didn't do advanced I later learned) but lost them with a final blast and sailed in to win not only my category (Solo Masters) but take the overall win too! Yee Haw!
Dave and Nulla were about 10 minutes back, and our RTN teamamtes 3-Pin and Lo-Tox were 2nd co-ed.
Bash's precision nav backfired due to the misplaced CPs, but she still was not only the first female solo but the second solo overall, so we were 1-2!
We were really pleased to see Hingo and K/O, and they narrowly missed 3rd co-ed.
Woo Hoo!
Bash and I did this one as solos.
My 'Bent seems cursed. It had a flat when I took it out of the van, and after changing the tire I found it low again 10 minutes before the briefing, so yet another panic tire change.
We started on the water. Paddling my huge expedition kayak into a stiff breeze, I was going zone 5 and couldn't catch Bash, until the downwind section! I came off the water around 6th after a huge effort, with Dave Z 's team and Bash hot on my heels. A horrible 400M portage (My 80lb boat's a pig to carry solo).
On the bikes, I managed to catch Dave Z's team and a solo on the road on a huge climb, but cramped up something fierce, and had to stop, stretch and eat tums. I got them and another team of 2 later on the nice singletrack.
TA to the run, where I planned to bushwhack to cut the marked route. Unfortunately the 1st 2 CPs were misplaced, and I wasted some time looking for CP1 with some other teams. Once we found it I lost them by more bushwhacking, happened to hit the misplaced CP2 OK, then leapfrogged Dave Z, nailed the advanced section and came off the trek in 1st!
Back to bikes, Dave Z and Nulla (sp?) caught me when I took a bearing at a suspicious curve under a hydro line, (Threw my compass way off) and went squishing off through a muddy ATV trail. I eventually backtracked, ran them down, and we worked together briefly. After that I just put my head down (figuratively) and biked hard by myself the rest of the race, thinking that if the headwind's hard for me it's worse for all the Wedgie Bike riders. I kept waiting for the roadies to run me down.
At the final offroad section I ran into a team and solo, (who didn't do advanced I later learned) but lost them with a final blast and sailed in to win not only my category (Solo Masters) but take the overall win too! Yee Haw!
Dave and Nulla were about 10 minutes back, and our RTN teamamtes 3-Pin and Lo-Tox were 2nd co-ed.
Bash's precision nav backfired due to the misplaced CPs, but she still was not only the first female solo but the second solo overall, so we were 1-2!
We were really pleased to see Hingo and K/O, and they narrowly missed 3rd co-ed.